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Antarah ibn Shaddad
Antarah ibn Shaddad (عنترة بن شداد), pre-Islamic Arabian warrior-poet of Banu 'Abs, author of one of the Mu'allaqat; son of an Abyssinian slave mother, lover of 'Abla, hero of the epic Sīrat 'Antar, and one of the canonical Six Poets.
Antes do Baile Verde
Antes do Baile Verde is a 1970 collection of 18 short stories by the Brazilian writer Lygia Fagundes Telles, blending psychological realism with the fantastic.
Anthem (novella)
Anthem is Ayn Rand's 1937 dystopian novella, first published in England in 1938 and in a revised American edition in 1946, set in a collectivist future where the word "I" has been erased and Equality 7-2521 rediscovers the Ego.
Anthem of the Decades
Anthem of the Decades is an epic poem by South African poet Mazisi Kunene, written in Zulu and published in his own English translation in 1981.
Anthems in Animal Farm
Anthems in Animal Farm: "Beasts of England", Old Major's revolutionary song from Orwell's 1945 novella, banned in chapter seven and replaced by Minimus's "Animal Farm!" and a Napoleon anthem, paralleling the Soviet replacement of The Internationale in 1944.
Anthills of the Savannah
Anthills of the Savannah is a 1987 novel by the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, his fifth and last, set in the fictional West African country of Kangan.
Anthologia Latina
The Anthologia Latina is a modern compilation of late antique Latin epigrams and short poems, drawn from manuscripts and inscriptions and centered on the Codex Salmasianus.
Anthology
Anthology: a book compiling works, usually short stories, poems, or essays, by multiple authors around a theme, genre, or period. From Greek anthologia, "gathering of flowers"; distinguished from the single-author collection; includes annual year's-best series.
Anthropodermic bibliopegy
Anthropodermic bibliopegy, binding books in human skin; verified by peptide mass fingerprinting via the Anthropodermic Book Project, 18 of 31 tested books confirmed; categories criminal, medical, memorial; Harvard case removed 2024.
Anti-Magic Academy: The 35th Test Platoon (対魔導学園35試験小隊)
Anti-Magic Academy: The 35th Test Platoon (対魔導学園35試験小隊) is a light novel series by Tōki Yanagimi and Kippu, Fujimi Shobo, 13 volumes from 2012, with a 2015 Silver Link anime and a Yasumura manga.
Anti-nihilist novel
The anti-nihilist novel (антинигилистический роман) is a conventional name for Russian socio-political novels of the 1860s to early 1880s portraying nihilists as a threat to Russian life.
Anticlaudianus
The Anticlaudianus is an allegorical Latin epic in ten books by Alan of Lille, written around 1182 in northern France, describing the creation of the perfect man.
Antigonish (poem)
Antigonish, popularly known as "The Man Who Wasn't There," is a short 1899 poem by William Hughes Mearns about an apparition on a stair, written for a Harvard play and published in the New York World in 1922.
Antihero
Antihero: a protagonist in fiction, drama, or film who lacks traditional heroic qualities such as courage, honesty, and idealism; also called anti-hero. Distinguished from villains and tragic heroes; exemplified by Yossarian, Willy Loman, and TV figures like Walter White.
Antología de la poesía hispanoamericana
Antología de la poesía hispanoamericana is a Spanish American poetry anthology associated with Octavio Paz's 1966 landmark Poesía en movimiento, published by Siglo XXI Editores in Mexico.
Antología de la poesía mexicana moderna
Antología de la poesía mexicana moderna is the title of several Mexican poetry anthologies, most prominently Jorge Cuesta's 1928 collection of 22 poets that founded the modern Mexican poetic canon.
Anton Chigurh
Anton Chigurh is the fictional hitman antagonist of Cormac McCarthy's 2005 novel No Country for Old Men and its 2007 Coen brothers film, played by Oscar-winning Javier Bardem; known for his cattle stun gun and fate-deciding coin toss.
Antonio (The Merchant of Venice)
Antonio is the title merchant of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, who pledges a pound of flesh to Shylock for Bassanio's 3,000-ducat loan and is saved by Portia at trial.
Anugerah Kebudayaan Indonesia
Anugerah Kebudayaan Indonesia is an Indonesian state appreciation program, held annually since 2012, that honors individuals, communities, and institutions for contributions to Indonesian culture through presidential honors and ministerial awards.
Anvar-i Suhayli
Anvar-i Suhayli (انوار سهیلی, "The Lights of Canopus") is a Persian collection of animal fables and advice for rulers written by Ḥosayn Wāʿeẓ Kāšefī around 1500, reworking the Kalīla wa Demna cycle.
Anyway, I'm Falling in Love with You
Anyway, I'm Falling in Love with You. (Douse Koishite Shimaunda., Koishima) is Haruka Mitsui's shōjo manga serialized in Kodansha's Nakayoshi from late 2020 to 2026 in 14 volumes, set during the 2020 pandemic, adapted into a two-season Typhoon Graphics anime airing 2025 and 2026.
Apabhramsha kavya
Apabhramsha kavya (अपभ्रंश काव्य) is poetry composed in Apabhramsha, the late Middle Indo-Aryan literary language between the Prakrits and modern languages like Hindi and Gujarati.
Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra
Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra (異世界黙示録マイノグーラ), also Isekai Mokushiroku Mynoghra, is a Japanese isekai light novel by Fehu Kazuno and Jun about dying gamer Takuto Ira rebuilding the evil civilization Mynoghra; adapted into manga and a 2025 MAHO FILM anime.
Apocalypse Culture
Apocalypse Culture is Adam Parfrey's 1987 Amok Press anthology of fringe essays, interviews, and manifestos, reissued expanded by Feral House in 1990; a subcultural classic, sequel 2000, 100,000 copies by 2010, banned in Russia.
Apocolocyntosis
The Apocolocyntosis is a short Latin satire, ascribed to Seneca, mocking the death of Emperor Claudius and the gods' refusal to make him a god.
Apollonius of Tyre
Apollonius of Tyre is the fictional hero of an anonymous Latin romance, the Historia Apollonii regis Tyri, whose tale of shipwreck and reunion shaped medieval retellings and Shakespeare's Pericles.
Appassionata (novel)
Appassionata is the title of several unrelated novels: Eva Hoffman's 2009 Other Press literary novel about pianist Isabel Merton and a Chechen exile, Jilly Cooper's 1996 Rutshire Chronicles book about conductor Abigail Rosen, and Fannie Hurst's 1926 novel.
Appendix N
Appendix N: Inspirational and Educational Reading is Gary Gygax's 1979 bibliography in the first AD&D Dungeon Masters Guide, listing the 28 fantasy and science fiction authors, including Howard, Leiber, Vance tradition, and Lovecraft, who shaped Dungeons & Dragons.
Apple Tree Yard
Apple Tree Yard: 2013 psychological courtroom thriller by Louise Doughty (Faber & Faber) about geneticist Yvonne Carmichael's affair, rape, and murder trial; adapted as a four-part BBC One 2017 series starring Emily Watson, averaging 8.23m viewers.
Appleseed (アップルシード) (manga)
Appleseed (アップルシード) is Masamune Shirow's 1985–1989 science fiction manga and his major debut: four Seishinsha volumes, frozen unfinished. Set in utopian Olympus, it follows Deunan and cyborg Briareos, predating Ghost in the Shell.